Catharine oliver dutcher



(No Model.)

0. O. BUTCHER.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

No. 541,153. Patented June 18, 1895.

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CATHARINE OLIVER DUTCHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,153, dated June 18, 1895.

Application filed February 12, 1895- Serial No. 533,074- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern):

Be it known that CATHARINE OLIVER DUTCHER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

Strings for pulling down window curtains are commonly tied to a screw eye screwed into the middle of the stick contained in the wide transverse hem at the edge of the curtain. Such sticks are usually made of pine or other soft wood from which the screw eyes are easily detached.

The object of the present improvement is to provide a simple and. manually applicable but more substantial means of securing to the curtain stick the instru mentality to which the curtain string is attached.

The invention embraces a metal band long enough to wrap rather more than once around the curtain stick and formed integrally with a tongue adapted to overlie a part of the band and to be inserted either through a transverse keeper affixed to or integral with the band, or preferably through a transverse slot in the band so that its end portion will underlie, and be shielded by, the adjoining part of the band. lhe part of the band which is to form the lower bight, extending around the under edge of the curtain stick, is suitably perforated to admit the legs of a staple. The inner projecting portions of the staple legs are bent laterally in relatively opposite directions. These opposite bends serve not only to secure the staple to the band but to steady it in position when the band is wrapped around the curtain stick.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which are as follows:

Figure l is a projection of the inner side of the band and its tongue, showing the staplelegs bent in opposite directions. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section taken through the plane indicated by the dotted line :1; 00 on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the modification illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 applied to the middle portion of the curtain-stick and showing the preferred mode of disposing of the end of the tongue. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken through the plane indicated by the dotted line y g on Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an isometrical perspective of a portion of the tongue and the adjoining portion of the band, illustrating the modification which consists in providing the band with an offset transverse keeper for the reception of the tongue.

On referring to the drawings it will be seen that the band,a, which is of prescribed width is formed integrally with a relatively narrow extension constituting the tongue, 1. The band, a, is intended to be long enough to wrap rather more than once around the curtainstick 0. The staple, d, has its legs, d 61 inserted through appropriately located apertures in the band, and the end portions of the legs of the staple are bent laterally in relatively opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 1.

It is preferred to provide the band witha transverse slot, 6, and to slightly oifset the metal on one side of the slot to afford a flaring socket, e, for the reception of the end, I), of the tongue, b, so that when the structure is applied to the curtain-stick the end portion of the tongue will underlie and be shielded by the adjacent portion of the band, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. The band and tongue are wrapped around the curtainstick, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 and are held in position thereon by friction.

-As will be perceived, the band may be applied to the stick manually without requiring the use of any tools. If desired, although it will rarely be found essential, the edges of the tongue may be nicked and the nicked portion offset, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, so that when applied to the curtain-stick and pressed closely against the sides thereof, the resulting burrs, ff, by engaging the wood of the stick will resist the pulling out of the tongue.

The band and tongue may be bent into their suitable wrapping positions either around the curtain-stick or they may be bent into position around a suitable former and be slipped on the curtainstick.

The curtain hem is made of suflicient width to allow the stick with the fixture applied to it to be slipped into appropriate position, after which the stick will be dropped so that the bight of the staple will project through a suitable slot in the hem. The band and tongue may be made of such length as to admit of application to curtain-sticks which within moderate limits vary in their shapes and the sizes of their cross sections. A less desirable Way of disposing of the tongue is illustrated in Fig. 5, which, as will be seen, represents a keeper, g, which is either formed integrally with, or fastened to, the band and which is offset from the plane of the band to allow the tongue to pass under'it. In this case the end portion of the tongue is not necessarily confined and shielded as it is in the modification illustrated in the other figures; still, for certain purposes of the present invention, the oifset keeper or socket is the equivalent of the flaring socket e. Similarly, it is to be understood that an instrumentality capable of appropriate attachment to the bight of the the metal of the band adjoining one side of said slot being pressed outwardly and forming a flaring socket; a tongue relatively narrower than said band but formed integrally therewith and adapted to overlie the band on one side of said slot and to enter said socket and underlie the band on the opposite sideof 

